Former FSB general: Putin fears wrath of Russians fed up with war in Ukraine

Yevgeny Savostyanov, former head of the Moscow FSB, says that Vladimir Putin is in a bad psychological state and tries to stay away from other people.

More and more Russians are showing dissatisfaction with President Vladimir Putin’s policies because of military failures in Ukraine. Such information is provided by the British edition of the Express, with reference to General Yevgeny Savostyanov, the former head of the Moscow department of the FSB.

According to the source, the RF Armed Forces did not achieve any significant success in the war in Ukraine for a year and remained in the same lines for a long time. Therefore, now Vladimir Putin is very afraid of the “anger” of the inhabitants of Russia, which at any moment can find a way out, and therefore is looking for any way to achieve victory.

“Putin very well understands the mood of people who have lost everything because of him and stays away from them. Putin is very afraid now. He understands that he is in trouble. Now he is in such a psychological state that he clings to everything. opportunity to win,” said Evgeny Savostyanov. According to him, Putin “destroyed himself” by ordering an attack on Ukraine.

British journalists noted that the Russian advance in Ukraine stopped at the borders of the Donbass, and it is not clear how hostilities will develop in the next few months. Vladimir Putin tried to strengthen the troops with the help of partial mobilization, but this did not help the RF Armed Forces to make a significant breakthrough.

In September 2022, about 300 thousand soldiers were mobilized in Russia, but even more, unwilling to fight, went abroad. According to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, at the end of the year the population of the Russian Federation decreased by about 555.3 thousand people (from 146.98 million to 146.42 million).

In a message to the Federal Assembly on February 21, Vladimir Putin announced that the “military operation” in Ukraine was continuing. He promised that the Russians would continue to solve problems consistently.

Before that, in a February 5 report, analysts at the Institute for War Studies said that Vladimir Putin still wants to seize all of Ukraine, but is not ready for the use of nuclear weapons and for war with NATO. He sets difficult goals for military leadership and demands that they be achieved.

Source: Focus

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